5 Surprising Reasons Walking Improves Health Span
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Walking can help you stay healthy. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about surprising ways walking can impact health span.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I want to talk about how walking is helping me live on borrowed time. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to take the walk and build a life-changing walking habit. |
| 0:23.1 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:35.0 | So, apparently, I don't have a whole lot of time left. |
| 0:37.9 | It can be measured in months. |
| 0:43.6 | You want to do something that's eye-opening that'll grab your attention? |
| 0:51.3 | Look up what your life expectancy was the day you were born. |
| 1:04.0 | For a baby boy, born in 1960, at that moment, the day I was born, my life expectancy was 66 years and seven months. That expected finish line is at the end of this year. |
| 1:13.6 | The thing is, I'm not worried. Things have changed. But there is another number, an expectancy number, that is more current and quite frankly more worrisome. |
| 1:35.3 | And that's the expected health span that I have, that you have. For males, 62 months for women 65 years and one month |
| 1:50.6 | and then there are the health cliffs and this is from research out of |
| 1:56.6 | Stanford and there are two maybe three but the research that is most recent within |
| 2:04.8 | the last year or two is that the first health cliff, and this is when our health just |
| 2:12.4 | kind of takes a noticeable, significant, even statistically noticeable downturn cliff is pretty |
| 2:22.0 | dramatic a health cliff is pretty dramatic and that's what these these are the |
| 2:25.3 | first one is at age 44 the second health cliff is at age 60. |
| 2:44.6 | I have a physical every year, annual physical, and each year it kind of feels like the stakes are getting higher. |
| 2:48.9 | My anxiety, pre-physical anxiety, keeps notching up a little bit more, and no wonder. |
| 2:58.1 | There's the health span, the health cliffs, and I am now 66. I'm on borrowed time when it comes to healthy living. |
| 3:12.3 | Because my most recent physical, and I mentioned this earlier in the year after the physical, |
| 3:19.3 | my doctor gave me an A plus. At this particular time, I'm on no medications. |
| 3:26.0 | There was nothing in the blood work or nothing that he saw that indicated I needed to go on medication. |
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